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cursed
Something that has some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse.
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  1. Something that has some sort of divine harm, malady, or other curse.
  2. So wicked and detestable as to deserve to be cursed.
  3. Deserving to be cursed
hopeless
Having no hope or chance of changing or improving:
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  1. Having no hope or chance of changing or improving:
  2. Having no hope; despairing:
  3. Characterized by despair:
stricken
Removed or rubbed out.
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  1. Removed or rubbed out.
  2. Affected by something overwhelming, such as disease, trouble, or painful emotion.
  3. Having the contents made even with the top of a measuring device or container; level:
hapless
Devoid of talent or skill.
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  1. Devoid of talent or skill.
  2. Very unlucky; ill-fated.
  3. Unfortunate; unlucky; luckless
ill-fated
Causing misfortune; unlucky
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  1. Causing misfortune; unlucky
  2. Having or certain to have an evil fate or unlucky end
  3. Unlucky; doomed.
ill-starred
Doomed to a bad fate; hapless
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  1. Doomed to a bad fate; hapless
  2. Unlucky or doomed to disaster
  3. Ill-fated; unlucky.
star-crossed
Alternative spelling of star-crossed.
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  1. Alternative spelling of star-crossed.
  2. Ill-fated by destiny, the fate of the person being “written in the stars".
  3. Opposed by fate; ill-fated:
unfortunate
Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune
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  1. Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune
  2. Not suitable or successful
  3. Characterized by, bringing, or causing misfortune:
unhappy
Not suitable; inappropriate:
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  1. Not suitable; inappropriate:
  2. Not happy or joyful; sad or sorrowful:
  3. Unlucky; unfortunate
unlucky
Unfortunate, marked by misfortune
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  1. Unfortunate, marked by misfortune
  2. Not lucky; having, attended with, bringing, or involving bad luck; unfortunate, ill-fated, or ill-omened
  3. Resulting or likely to result in misfortune; inauspicious:
untoward
Inappropriate, improper, unseemly, etc.
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  1. Inappropriate, improper, unseemly, etc.
  2. Not favorable or fortunate; adverse, inauspicious, etc.
  3. Unfavorable or adverse:
Find another word for luckless. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for luckless, like: cursed, hopeless, stricken, unfortunate, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy and unlucky.

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  • In 1341 the two girls left Penafiel; Costanca's marriage was celebrated in the same year, and the young infanta and her cousin went to reside at Lisbon, or at Coimbra, where Dom Pedro conceived that luckless and furious passion for Inez which has immortalized them.

  • Neither seems to have paid up, and that, perhaps, had to do with the quarrel which parted Benjamin Disraeli and John Murray before a sheet of the luckless Representative was printed.

  • luckless vole feeding off the barren landscape.

  • Sicilian feeling was first shown in the support given to the luckless expedition of Conradin in 1268.

  • At the invitation of the count of Leiningen-Dachsburg, Bahrdt now went as general superintendent to Durkheim on the Hardt; his luckless translation of the Testament, however, pursued him, and in 1778 he was suspended by a decision of the high court of the Empire.

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